 Death becomes painful for three types of people death becomes painful for them three types of people death becomes painful for Think and look in yourself. Do I have these three characteristics? Shall I tell you what those characteristics is the first characteristic is a person who supports an oppressor Your death becomes difficult for you. If you support an oppressor, what does it mean by supporting an oppressor? It doesn't mean by supporting Yazid Saddam Namrud Throne, is that just oppression? No. Shall I tell you what oppression means? Let me give you an example then think within yourself if you have these qualities Your sister has a fight with her brother Your sister has a fight with her husband your brother-in-law, right? What happens straight away without even asking you take the side of your sister? What have you done? Volum, you've become an oppressor. What happens on the moment of your death? You could die a kafir because of that go into the Rwayat and see you've done oppression What does it say in the tradition a qadi a person who is adjusted? the justice you could say the Qadi what is he? He is a person who is between heaven and hell one wrong decision means that you can go into hell or go towards heaven You become that qadi then the minute somebody has a fight the minute you have an issue in the mosque Straight away you go back to the party that you support Your responsibility is regardless of whether it's your own son Your responsibility is that you had two sides of the story straight away We make up our mind because there are children how many times have you seen mothers point blank support their children Knowing full well that their children are wrong. They still support them You know recently a person came to me and they said to me child They said our mother and this is the flip side of it says everyone's children or everyone's mother support their children Our mother doesn't always support us whenever we do something. She asks us question. She interrogates us She does the just thing, but if you look at other people's mothers, they support them point blank I said you should be thankful and grateful that your mother has justice Because she's paving her way towards heaven Regardless of whether it if it's my son or your son the fact of the matter is that when they're wrong They're wrong do not be one of the oppressors and this is one of the reasons why I wanted to mention this because in every mosque not just In Shea more Sunni mosque you find in every institution and Again, no one's told me about the issues you may have it So I'm not going to raise any issues her as far as I'm concerned. There are no issues in Bathurst So I'm going to go next door to the other centers which are next door and I'll mention them when two parties are fighting When presidents are fighting when groups are fighting. What is our responsibility in that our? Responsibilities that we need to be just otherwise our death can be very painful We can die the death of a car for be very careful what you do be very careful the decision you make do not oppress a person No one think that one an oppressed person Raises hands it becomes most a job when an oppressed person curses you where you're gonna turn to if you've oppressed anyone and One of the people that you find that you oppress are your family members How many people are oppressing their spouse without knowing it the fact that you go into your house and Sometimes you're aggressive with your wife. Why are you aggressive because I've had a bad day's work today I got fired or whatever happened the minute you come into the house you start taking it out on your wife and your children What have you done you've oppressed them? What is your down if you were to die? It's possible you die the death of a car for do you want to risk all of that? Do you want to become an oppressor what happens when you become an oppressor the grace of Allah's taken away? The threshold for problems when they come in your life to tackle them are taken away You know you find problem upon problem comes for that person who's an oppressor Do not do them then in the same way that you find wives as well Straight away they start abusing without knowing it They start abusing and raising their voices and saying things to their husbands not realizing that they're doing it Sometimes the people that we care about the most we take for granted Make sure that you don't oppress your wife your children or your husbands. You see it happens in our daily life Oppression is something which is open to us It happens in our mosques. It happens in our madrasas. It happens amongst brothers and sisters But be a person like Amid al-Mu'minin. That's just Develop that justice in yourself that even when it comes to his own shia, you know what he says he says that I'll treat you with justice Treat you with justice Regardless of whoever you are whatever you are second thing one oppression second thing false statements How many times do we swear or we say a custom or We say something And we don't live up to it false testimony in a core of law Even if it's going against you Don't ever lie. They say lying is the key to sins of the minute you begin to lie The Imam alai salam is saying there's a tradition that says it says my she has made sin But one thing they don't do is they don't lie My she has made too many things. They may be very sinful all sorts of sins But the one thing that they don't do is they don't lie. They're truthful Second thing painful death if you have that vice that you lie. You're not a shia Remove that within yourself But then the Imam says another thing and this gives us hope he says it may be my she is well sin They're not infallible. They will sin But my she is of those people who repent straight away Sometimes, you know, we say to ourself that we feel embarrassed standing in front of Allah. You say that, right? I feel embarrassed. How can I face my Lord? I've just sinned and I was sinning yesterday as well and I'm sinning today But Allah says he says even if you sin, don't turn away from me my servant come back to me Even if you've sinned make sure that you repent straight away Regardless, yes, you feel embarrassed is good to feel embarrassed Is the day when you don't feel embarrassed is a day that your heart is now being closed? second thing Third thing see Thorba is a very powerful thing. It takes you back to Allah. What are you saying? You're saying I repent and I come back to the Creator again So make sure that you make a covenant with yourself deep down whenever I sin I'll repent straight away The question is asked a lot of times the youths ask the question, right? How about if we're persistently sinning does Allah still forgive us? The answer to that is Allah will continue to forgive you if you make the intention that I'll never do it again Be remorseful cry be embarrassed and then say to Allah I will never do it again if you have that hundred percent conviction that you will never do it again Even if you were to sin again, but that conviction was there the certainty was there Allah will forgive you and if again you repent with hundred percent sincerity and again your sin Allah will still forgive you even if it's a thousand times Allah will forgive you a thousand times the difference is the state of mind You need to make sure that I'm trying my best that I will never sin again and see what Allah does He will help you then he will push you a question was asked They were asked how can we know that Allah is accepting us and our sins are being forgiven in the traditions It says if a person is enjoying praying if they have that Lezzah while they pray if they have the pleasure while they pray The more the pleasure increases the more you realize that Allah is accepting your prayers and Allah has forgiven you from your sins But the more you find that you are distracted and pushed away from your prayer You find that the more you are moving away from God This is why no one thing someone came to the great master of Irfan Said Ali Gazi that mountain of Dohid the teacher of Allah Mata Bata Bayi the teacher of Ayatollah Bachar the teacher of Hassan Allahi the teacher of Ayatollah Khoi comes up to him and he asked him He says tell me say it tell me one thing if I want to reach Allah if I want to gain Allah if I want ma'rif of Allah If I want to be an Arif if I want to be like you tell me one thing that I can do just the one thing I have time for nothing else Give me that one thing that I can do that I can reach Allah said Ali Kadi replies and says if a person For 40 days praise Oh well it worked on time and if he doesn't see spiritual gain or the fact that they're moving Maqamat He can come in he can spit on my grave if he has to do that It's the power of a person who's praying There's a handwritten note from say that he guarded that I have a photocopy of it says this if a person takes care of his prayers Everything else takes care of itself if you are having financial difficulty Make sure that you're praying on time that you make the axis of your life your prayers And you see all of those things all of the problems trials and tribulation are alleviated from your life This is why one thing we say and that thing is this that regardless of who you are How big a sinner you are whatever you do and don't give up on your prayers You know a lot of times people will say to you look at you your sin, and you still pray What kind of a believer are you don't be disheartened by them whoever you are however you are whatever sin You are doing continue to pray to Allah the minute your prayers become cover and the minute you forget your prayers No, the mercy of Allah has been lifted up from you when that mercy is lifted Where you're gonna go then to what doorstep are you gonna go when problems before you you have moved away from the mercy of Allah? So make sure whatever happens however sinful you are make sure you pray for God's sake Don't leave one thing and that's a threshold of prayer as long as you have that prayer What did Amir al-Mu'minin say battle of syphine is going on swords are Flushing in the night sky Amir al-Mu'minin turns out he says it's the time for prayer a person comes to him and says to him Amir al-Mu'minin We're in the middle of a war He says what are we fighting for we're fighting for this prayer. He says you continue I'm going to pray Allah Akbar. He starts on the battlefield praying. That is Amir al-Mu'minin Go back and see say the Shahada our time comes. What does he say he says it's the time for prayer But Mola is a battlefield He says that we are doing everything for this prayer the purpose is this prayer Later on a person comes to Imam Zain al-Abudin alaihi salam He says to him after Karbala comes to me says Mola tell us who won Yazid or your father? Imagine asking that question 18 of your family members have been killed You've gone from kufr to shahm Your entire family has been violated And a person comes to you and asks you who won Imagine what Imam Zain al-Abudin must have been feeling you know what he replies calmly he says He says why don't you go and pray to you and suppress and much of the nubbery and then come back to me I'll answer your question The person goes and he comes back. He says now Mola tell me who won Imam says Do I need to tell you who won the fact that prayer is still established means that my father won and Yazid lost The entire battle is for those two units of prayers Those two units of prayers Symbolizes to heat when a person comes to the Imam and he says you have given us the kabir the major sins Where is not praying? You know you said the first thing is shirk Where is it that not praying the second thing for example is losing faith in God and then after that lying and alcohol and all of these Things then in the kabir the major sins The Imam replies. He says not praying a shirk comes into the first category Why? Because you're saying to yourself that Allah I'm not gonna follow you I'm gonna follow my nafs. Therefore your nafs has become your God This is why our horse the man there's a tradition that says people will follow the dinar and dirham It will become their Lord What does that mean? That means your entire life will be spent in buying that Ferrari and buying that big house and having that wife and Having those children that she was wanted you forget the idea that the purpose is not the wealth The purpose is have wealth but have it for the sake of Allah Second thing now, let's go to the third thing from false testimony if we move forward third thing usurpation of the right of orphans How many people do that in a day in a lifetime in a month in a year? Let me give you an example those olama of Najaf, right? When a father would pass away and he had small children they wouldn't even eat at that person's house You know why not even a glass of water because they would say just in case that's the inheritance of that child That's how strict they were they were strict to such an extent that they didn't even take the wealth of an orphan just in case You see if these three characteristics are there of a person you find they died a death Very difficult death